The University of Toronto weekly physics colloquia will now be available online. You can download the PDF file only (if available), or view the voice-synchronized version of the talk. Just click on the PowerPoint file for the talk, and click open at the prompt. If you have difficulty opening the file in your browser, you can download both the PowerPoint file and the MP3 recording to your computer under the same directory.
Date | Speaker / Institution | Host | Title / Topic | Download |
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September 13th, 2007 | Len Sander University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Rashmi Desai | Patterns and Growth of Highly Malignant Brain Tumors |
PowerPoint File* Recording not available |
September 20th, 2007 | Ian Shipsey Purdue University |
William Trischuk | Bring Hearing to the Deaf with Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account |
PowerPoint File* MP3 Recording |
September 27th, 2007 | David Goodstein Caltech |
Young-June Kim | Out of Gas: The end of the age of oil |
MP3 Recording |
October 4th, 2007 | Nergis Mavalvala MIT |
Neal Dalal | The search for the elusive gravitational wave |
Recording not available |
October 11th, 2007 | Cecilia Bitz University of Washington |
Paul Kushner | Predicting Arctic Sea Ice Retreat |
PowerPoint File* |
October 18th, 2007 | Erich Poppitz University of Toronto |
Paul Kushner | The wonders of supersymmetry: from quantum mechanics, topology, and noise, to (maybe) the LHC |
MP3 Recording |
October 25th, 2007 | Krishna Rajagopal MIT |
Erich Poppitz | Probing the Properties of Quark-Gluon Plasma |
MP3 Recording |
November 1st, 2007 | Jun Zhang NYU |
Stephen Morris and Mary Pugh | The unidirectional flight of flapping wings |
MP3 Recording |
November 8th, 2007 | David Snoke University of Pittsburgh |
Henry van Driel | Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons in microcavities |
PowerPoint File* MP3 Recording |
November 15th, 2007 | Sabine Stanley University of Toronto |
Paul Kushner | Using dynamo generated magnetic fields to study a planet's deep interior |
MP3 Recording |
November 29th, 2007 | Richard Van De Water Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Peter Krieger | Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Neutrinos |
PDF File |
December 6th, 2007 | Anirvan Sengupta Rutgers University |
Arun Paramekanti | Phase Transitions in the Genome |
MP3 Recording |
January 10th, 2008 | Saroja Polavarapu Environment Canada |
Ted Shepherd | Combining measurements and models in atmospheric physics |
PowerPoint File* MP3 Recording |
January 17th, 2008 | John Atherton Toronto District School Board |
David Bailey | Why do we bother to teach Physics at High School? |
PowerPoint File* Recording not available |
January 24th, 2008 | Dan Shim MIT |
Sabine Stanley | The Post-Perovskite Transition -Geophysical Implications for the Core-Mantle Boundary Region |
MP3 Recording |
January 31st, 2008 | Daniel Goldman Georgia Tech |
Stephen Morris | Running on sand |
Slides and recording not available |
February 7th, 2008 | Tommy Eriksson CERN AB/OP/AD |
Paul Kushner/Cody Storry | Particle accelerators at CERN - past, present and future |
MP3 Recording PowerPoint File* (zipped) |
February 14th, 2008 | Dan Stamper-Kurn Berkeley |
Joseph Thywissen | Quantum and thermal phases of a spin-1 Bose gas |
MP3 Recording |
February 29th, 2008 | Daniel James University of Toronto |
Paul Kusner | Quantum Computing, Cryptography and Teleportation |
Slides and recording not available |
March 6th, 2008 | Chang C. Tsuei IBM T.J. Watson Research Center |
John Wei | Half Flux Quantization and High-Temperature Superconductivity: the road to d-wave and beyond |
Slides and recording not available |
March 13th, 2008 | Howard Stone Harvard |
Stephen Morris | Manipulating thin-film flows: From patterned substrates to evaporating systems |
MP3 Recording |
March 27th, 2008 | Margaret Kivelson UCLA |
Sabine Stanley | Electromagnetic periodicities at Saturn |
MP3 Recording PowerPoint File* |
April 3rd, 2008 | Greg Scholes University of Toronto |
Mary Pugh and Stephen Morris | Designing and controlling the optical properties of nanoscale systems |
MP3 Recording |
April 10th, 2008 | Felice Frankel Harvard University |
Paul Kusner and Ingrid Silm | Envisioning Science, More than Pretty Pictures |
Slides and recording not available |
* - without voice synchronization | ||||
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